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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2010
Qingfeng Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
David K. Fork, Los Altos, CA (US);
Luke Plurkowski, Antioch, CA (US);
Dave Weinerth, Oakland, CA (US);
Qingfeng Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
David K. Fork, Los Altos, CA (US);
Luke Plurkowski, Antioch, CA (US);
Dave Weinerth, Oakland, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for financial transactions in a rideshare system is provided. A rideshare environment with multiple rideshare transactions is maintained. Each rideshare transaction includes one or more participants. Bids are received from potential participants for a position in at least one of the rideshare transactions. At least one potential participant is assigned to one of the rideshare transactions based on one of the bids.